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From syllabus to center stage: Utah Regional Ballet shows how far a youth ensemble can go.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-AUG-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: From syllabus to center stage: Utah Regional Ballet shows how far a youth ensemble can go.(TEACH-LEARN CONNECTION)

Article Excerpt
For dance aficionados, the good news in the Wasatch Valley outside Salt Lake City is not just its overnight expansion, or the gleaming snows of its six ski resorts, or the sun on the gentle red rock contours of a gigantic reclining female figure recognizable in Mount Timpanogos. It's that Jacqueline Colledge's sparkling youth ensemble--Utah Regional Ballet--is creating promising dancers who go on to companies like Ballet West, Pennsylvania Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Nevada Ballet Theatre, and Sacramento Ballet.

This semi-professional company with its clean, technically uniform sharpness and expressiveness shows just how far a youth ensemble can go--and grow. Metatarsals push into high arches in pointe shoes, limbs soar into space, and the joy shared among the dancers is palpable. These young women, ages 17 to 24, show the results of the carefully engineered "set...

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